Articles from Deane Waldman | Selfgrowth.com

There are six important reasons to kick Washington OUT of U.S. healthcare. Simply put, healthcare is not in their wheelhouse. The solution to our failing healthcare system is StatesCare, not more-of-the-same Washington domination, called single payer or Medicare-for-All.
Reason #1: Track ...Views: 49

The title question might seem silly, even ludicrous. It is anything but.
In the United States today, a truck driver is free to choose which gear to use going up a hill and at what speed to go down the hill. Accountants and lawyers are free to accept or refuse specific jobs and how to do their ...Views: 53

If you work in healthcare, the initials HIPAA make you gag. If you are not in healthcare, you are probably unaware of this 2000-pound hippopotamus that you are supporting.
HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (of 1998). In the early 1990s, there was extensive ...Views: 49

There are several lessons we?have?learned from the CoViD-19 experience such as: the unreliability of predictive models; the danger of depending on foreign supply chains; over-reaction can be a deadly as under-reaction; and the need for better contingency planning.
There is one lesson we have ...Views: 50

As doctors become more frustrated with Medicare’s reimbursement rates and rules, many are displaying their dissatisfaction by not treating Medicare patients.
The number of U.S. doctors treating patients enrolled in Medicare is falling, according to a recent story in The Wall Street Journal ...Views: 66

The Theft
The Medicare Act was signed into Law by President Lyndon Johnson in January, 1965. It was intended as a national HSA with individual accounts called lockboxes. Each worker puts a small amount away each month during the work years, collected by the government through a payroll tax. ...Views: 57

Federal healthcare regulations with their attendant bureaucracies are supposed to facilitate patients getting the medical care they need when they need it. Sadly, bureaucracy does the exact opposite: it reduces access to care and can lead to needless deaths.
Creating federal rules and ...Views: 70

Common wisdom teaches that those who have health insurance get the care they need when they need it, and that those who don't have coverage, don't get care. This false "wisdom" is used by progressives to push for government-controlled, single payer healthcare.
Evidence proves that this wisdom ...Views: 60

In 1984, Wendy’s began a marketing campaign that was so successful, its slogan — “Where’s the beef?” — became an American icon. It means, “Show me the proof that I am getting what I am paying for.”
When we buy a hamburger, we demand, “Where’s the beef?” Yet when we consider purchasing the ...Views: 65

Everyone believes that the purpose of a healthcare system is to get the right care on time to the most people, and everyone is right. Where common wisdom goes astray is the presumption that coverage equals care. Most people think that having health insurance guarantees getting healthcare, i.e., ...Views: 77

Before the Revolutionary War, residents of the North American colonies were subjects of the British crown. They were entitled to as much or as little as the aristocracy allowed. Their living conditions and daily activities were dictated by the government. They paid whatever taxes were ...Views: 77

The U.S. healthcare system is failing both the American public as well as Americans doctors. Fundamental change is needed but Washington keeps adjusting the financing and never deals with the root cause-breakdown of the doctor-patient relationship.
Failing both patients and physicians
In ...Views: 78

The Unfunded Mandate is a legal contradiction and humanitarian nightmare that is also antibusiness. It needs a permanent fix, not a modification, adjustment, reconciliation, and most definitely not Washington style “reform.”
What is the Unfunded Mandate?
In 1986, Congress passed EMTALA ...Views: 83

When the CoViD-19 (Corona Virus Disease, 2019) first broke out, there was little-to-no data. Without factual evidence, medical advisers had to depend on mathematical models such as the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis from the Imperial College in London. With an estimate of more ...Views: 97

Elected officials such as New York and Atlanta mayors as well as clinical physicians, viz., in Maryland and Colorado, are projecting there will be more patients who need life-saving CoViD-19 services than there are facilities--ICU beds and ventilators--available. Such an imbalance between the ...Views: 92

U.S. healthcare is failing: it doesn't deliver timely care and spends money we don't have and can't afford. Can healthcare be fixed?
In 2018, the average American family spent $28,166 on healthcare costs. The same year, the U.S. poured $3.65 trillion -the GDP of Germany-into its healthcare ...Views: 127

To get what you want, you must first decide what that is. If you believe media reports on healthcare, the public wants to save money and to have health insurance.
Money and insurance are not our primary healthcare desires. What we want is simple and universal: access to timely affordable ...Views: 139

Clinical doctors can readily understand the continuing failure of the U.S. health care system. The attending physicians for Patient Healthcare–Washington, both legislative and executive branches–keep trying to treat the health care’s symptoms while refusing to seek the etiology of illness.
To ...Views: 140

How did 13 small colonies of the globe-spanning British Empire become the leader among nations in less than two and a half centuries? Answer: Freedom and its resulting “can do” culture. Freed from government controls and released from class constraints, the “new Americans” believed they could do ...Views: 121

Deceptively labeled Medicare-for-All, Democrats’ plan for single payer healthcare, is nothing less than poison–hemlock for healthcare. It will “federalize” our system, what is called nationalization in socialist countries. Medicare-for-All would exacerbate the three basic problems Americans face ...Views: 115